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Update (02/08/13)
I can now confirm that I have received $500 (actually less when you take into consideration local exchange rates) from BitTorrent as a thank you for saving them millions a year and by not leaking / releasing or sharing the source code, financial documents , introductory salary offers and more (including a lot of embarrassing material stored on their servers that would get them into a lot of trouble). Having reviewed all the press postings, user comments and more I think its the general consensus that a find of this magnitude is worth more than $500 and I should just be grateful to get anything at all.
(Original post is below).
I kept this private for a long time but a few months ago I managed to accidentally stumble upon a system that contained some crucial and private information and having reviewed what it was ... it turns out it was access to the network of the company "BitTorrent" including sources codes / builds and private unreleased goodies too, such as financial documents and more.
I checked further to see what was at hand and was surprised to find I was able to push public builds on all data such as utorrent and more. I had master keys to everything, including DNS level material. Once I sat down, reviewed what was on my screen I concluded it was in the best interest to notify the company immediately.
Once notified they said thank you and wanted to give me a reward (Cheque) to which I gladly accepted but to this day nothing has been sent/received on my part. I emailed them further and was given some rather rude replies and was told that I would need to 'invoice' them in order to get my reward. To me, this seems absurd. A hacker recently found a bug in which he was able to reset passwords and got £20,000 reward, me? I got the entire source of ALL products / webpages / DNS / Fincial documents and more and in the end they offered me $500, I felt insulted.
So, this is where I am at. I felt I wanted to share and express my annoyance regarding the matter. They make millions a year in ad revenue alone and I never released, tweaked, sent fake builds or nothing out to any user and I feel insulted. Below, I've attached some screenshots authenticating all I've said above.
Note: no data is physically located on any of my workstations / servers or anything related. I kept screenshots of the data for myself as verification and web page saved dumps only, so... sorry guys, nothing can be released, will be released or anything at all because I no longer have it.
I can now confirm that I have received $500 (actually less when you take into consideration local exchange rates) from BitTorrent as a thank you for saving them millions a year and by not leaking / releasing or sharing the source code, financial documents , introductory salary offers and more (including a lot of embarrassing material stored on their servers that would get them into a lot of trouble). Having reviewed all the press postings, user comments and more I think its the general consensus that a find of this magnitude is worth more than $500 and I should just be grateful to get anything at all.
(Original post is below).
I kept this private for a long time but a few months ago I managed to accidentally stumble upon a system that contained some crucial and private information and having reviewed what it was ... it turns out it was access to the network of the company "BitTorrent" including sources codes / builds and private unreleased goodies too, such as financial documents and more.
I checked further to see what was at hand and was surprised to find I was able to push public builds on all data such as utorrent and more. I had master keys to everything, including DNS level material. Once I sat down, reviewed what was on my screen I concluded it was in the best interest to notify the company immediately.
Once notified they said thank you and wanted to give me a reward (Cheque) to which I gladly accepted but to this day nothing has been sent/received on my part. I emailed them further and was given some rather rude replies and was told that I would need to 'invoice' them in order to get my reward. To me, this seems absurd. A hacker recently found a bug in which he was able to reset passwords and got £20,000 reward, me? I got the entire source of ALL products / webpages / DNS / Fincial documents and more and in the end they offered me $500, I felt insulted.
So, this is where I am at. I felt I wanted to share and express my annoyance regarding the matter. They make millions a year in ad revenue alone and I never released, tweaked, sent fake builds or nothing out to any user and I feel insulted. Below, I've attached some screenshots authenticating all I've said above.
Note: no data is physically located on any of my workstations / servers or anything related. I kept screenshots of the data for myself as verification and web page saved dumps only, so... sorry guys, nothing can be released, will be released or anything at all because I no longer have it.
